3Com 2500 manual Routing In An Appletalk Environment, Interface

7-8 CHAPTER 7: ROUTING IN AN APPLETALK® ENVIRONMENT

Network 5-5

Router 802

Interface 2

Router 24

Interface 1	Interface 3
Network 103-103

Network 64-64

Router 801

Router 36

Network 18-20

Router 200

Network 12-12

Figure 7-3 A Simple AppleTalk Network

Table 7-1 The Routing Table for Router 24 in Figure 7-3

Network Range	Distance	Interface	State
5-5	1	2	Good
12-12	3	3	Good
18-20	2	3	Good
103-103	0	1	Good
64-64	1	3	Good

You can view the AppleTalk routing tables in your network through the Administration Console.

AppleTalk Echo Protocol (AEP). AppleTalk nodes use the AEP to send datagrams to other nodes in the network. It causes the destination node to return, or echo, the datagram to the sending node. This protocol can determine whether a node is accessible before any sessions are started, and it can enable users to estimate the round-trip delay time between two nodes.